The plight of the Rohingya

Amid Myanmar’s reforms, violence against minorities continues.

Human Rights Watch released a 56-page report today on the violence in Burma's western Rakhine state, sometimes known by its colonial name, Arakan. The report accuses the Burmese security forces of participating in the rape, murder and displacement of Rohingya Muslims in the region:

The government of Myanmar says the Rohingyas should be resettled elsewhere:

Myanmar President Thein Sein said in June the government was only responsible for third-generation Rohingyas whose families had arrived before independence in 1948 and that it was impossible to accept those who had "illegally entered" Myanmar.
He recommended that the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR take care of them in camps or resettle them in third countries. UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres replied it could only resettle refugees that fled from one country to another.

Fueling the anger online are misleading images like this, posted and shared on social media networks. They turned out to be photos from other events, as this blog post from Pakistan's Express Tribune points out. Below is an image from the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in China, but its caption says otherwise.